ruby

ruby is a 4-letter English word with 11 senses as noun, adjective, and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A precious stone of a carmine red color, sometimes verging to violet, or intermediate between carmine and hyacinth red. It is a red crystallized variety of corundum. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 10 · 11 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A precious stone of a carmine red color, sometimes verging to violet, or intermediate between carmine and hyacinth red. It is a red crystallized variety of corundum.
2. noun. The color of a ruby; carmine red; a red tint.
3. noun. That which has the color of the ruby, as red wine. Hence, a red blain or carbuncle.
4. noun. See Agate, n., 2.
5. noun. Any species of South American humming birds of the genus Clytolaema. The males have a ruby-colored throat or breast.
6. adjective. Ruby-colored; red; as, ruby lips.
7. transitive verb. To make red; to redden.
8. noun. a deep and vivid red color

   Synonyms: crimson

9. noun. a transparent piece of ruby that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem
10. noun. a transparent deep red variety of corundum; used as a gemstone and in lasers
11. adjective. of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies

    Synonyms: carmine, cerise, cherry, crimson, red, reddish, ruddy, scarlet

Synonyms

crimson, carmine, cerise, cherry, red, reddish, ruddy, scarlet

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in ruby:

bury

Common word forms

rubied, rubier, rubies, rubiest, rubying

Words from these letters

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